Welcome to Weekend Photo Fun
DECEMBER 28 - 30, 2018
All Are Welcome!
Here is an opportunity to showcase any recent project or layout progress.
Please feel free to post any model railroad related photos here — past or present. This is a place to share photos of your layout, equipment or current project.
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I am honored to be starting Weekend Photo Fun on the last weekend of 2018.
I have managed to complete one new freight car this week. I have also been working very hard on my benchwork build experiment . This has been chronicled in another thread.
This boxcar is decorated for the fictional ILLINOIS VALLEY RAILROAD. It joins a covered hopper of the same roadname that I decorated a few weeks ago. The model is a Life-Like Proto 2000 Mather boxcar kit.
Please join in the Weekend Photo Fun and keep this thread the best of the week.
Be safe, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Nice car Kevin! If I wasn't a model railroader, I would never know the IVRR was fictional. I finished up my Rouses Point diorama this week, with grass tufts and some static grass.
And the layout of corse, track, roadbed, scenery, wiring, and structures being done at the same time on different parts of the layout.
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
My YouTube
Kevin ... Thanks for starting Weekend Photo Fun .... The boxcr looks great.
Harrison ... That is a very nice scene.
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Below is a photo with three automobiles I acquired this week for my layout. They are in the foreground and are Oxford models. The '61 Chevrolet Impala convertible brings back a lot of my memories. It is nearly identical to a '62 convertible I owned when I was in my 20's. Behind it are a '50 Olds and a '55 Buick.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Happy Friday,All!
Kevin,thanks for getting things started - nice work on the boxcar.
Rouses Point looks great,Harrison.
Very well done city scene,Garry. Love the two-tone job and the big whitewalls on the Buick! One of the cars I learned to drive in was a '56 Buick Century - what a boat!
453 brings a train of tank cars(you'll just have to trust me on that)through the cut south of town:
Have a good weekend,and a safe and happy New Year!
Mike
A good beginning to WPF guys. Thanks for starting us off Kevin. Thats a good looking box car.
Harrison - The station scene looks good.
Gary - A great city scene. I like the '50 Olds. My dad had one, dark green, a coupe if I remember correctly.
Mike - A good looking little steamer and a nice action scene.
My Black River Station project has some new life. The Bachmann kit I chose to use looked too much like a jail in brick red. The new light gray brightens things up a bit. I'm thinking a cupola/skylight to give it some class.
From my updated website, Santa Fe passenger and freight trains meet at the Route 32 overpass at the east end of the BRVRR layout.
Keep the photos and ideas coming guys. Thanks to you WPF is always the best thread of the week.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Thanks for starting things off amid your busy travels, Kevin! A sharp looking Mather car indeed I'm sure glad Life-Like was so prolific with their manufacturing quotas. There are still tons of cars out there for us to pick up cheap. The Mather box cars are a little more scarce but they can be found.
Your scenes get better every day, harrison! Very sharp.
Nice to see that I'm not the only shop-aholic when it comes to vehicles, Garry. I keep buying more even though I don't have much more room for them on the layout. My friend used to let me drive his '56 Roadmaster when I was just 14 or so
That green grass makes me think of Summer, MM Mike Very peaceful scene.
Nice work, too, on the Black River Depot, Allan. Gray does suit that building. It kind of reminds me of the old engine house at Marblehead on the Lakeside & Marblehead RR.
Well, the Mail delivery brought me a NYC Railway Post Office car today. You can never have too many of these around for a 1950s railroad.
NYC_RPO by Edmund, on Flickr
Another PRR project found me. I had this N&W Y-3 on the roster for years. Then it dawned on me that the Pennsy bought six of these back in, IIRC, 1943 to fill in for War-time needs. I painted this one in Brunswick Green and added the pilot lights, PRR markers and a Keystone number plate, normally only reserved for passenger engines.
PRR_HH1 by Edmund, on Flickr
It has a long way to go but the tricky part is behind me at least.
Now for a little foobie, sort of. This is actually a Santa Fe business car but...
NYC_Pleasant-Lake1 by Edmund, on Flickr
I figure railroad executives are always casting about with assignments of business cars and sometimes buying them from other railroads anyway—
So I named this one for the little Indiana town where my friend kept his Central Vermont caboose.
NYC_Pleasant-Lake by Edmund, on Flickr
That gold leaf sure looks sharp against Pullman Green Next will be glazing, window blinds and track lights and maybe the old man riding the platform.
On to more great stuff, I hope! Last one of 2018, let's make it a good one.
Happy New Year everybody... Ed
Kevin, Thanks for the WPF start-up. Wow, now that's enthusiasm, adventures in woodworking along with turning out a nice boxcar model, not to mention sharing the results on the forum.
Thanks to all the contributors for a great year of WPF, Happy New Year and regards, Peter
Working on weathering a centerbeam flat, with and without a load....
Terry
Inspired by Addiction
See more on my YouTube Channel
Kevin, Nice looking car to open WPF with.
Harrison, Nice work on that station.
GARRY, Those are some classic cars.
Mike, Love that see-through effect on the fence.
Allan, I agree, the gray looks great.
Ed, The Pleasant Lake makes for a convincing business car.
Peter, Not sure how the 2019 kid will turn out, but his diaper is fresh and he looks happy now!
Terry, Outstanding work on that centerbeam.
OK here's some bits and pieces to wrap up this year and get ready for the next. One item I found under the tree is something you don't usually find there, a Pullman spittoon.
Really like my new Wally's Service Station from Menards. What I can't figure out is how my local store has nearly a whole aisle of these neat-o light up (and in some cases, animated) buildings, but they don't have a single power supply for any of them in stock in the store!?? So the manager didn't forget to pay the power bill, there's no way to light it up until the power supply gets here.
Looks like the snow research team is just about ready for the snow...
I just glad I got RR stuff and not a pair of these...
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Thanks to everybody that replied and contributed this week.
Harrison: That Amtrak station scene is really an eye cather. The sign adds a lot to it.
Garry: My layout is set in August, 1954, but I have a autorack with 4 of the 1955 Buicks on it. I love that model. I guess they are on the way to a dealership for their September debut.
Mike: I wish I could see the narrow gauge tank cars. I think they look neat, probably my favorite narrow gauge freight car type.
Allan: I also think the building looks just fine in gray.
Ed: Seeing a Y3 with a Keystone made me do a double take.
Peter: That New Year's baby is behaving in a very unsafe manner. I hope he has a good grip.
Terry: Great job weathering the centerbeam flat.
Other Mike: Weird about no power supplies for the Menard's goodies. Still looks great in the picture.
I will see everyone next week.
Stay safe on the New Year.
Wrapping up the weekend:
Kevin- again, nice boxcar
Garry- those old autos really help set the era on your layout.
Mike- the static grass makes the scene very relistic.
Allan- That station is going to look good once it's done.
Ed- Those cars and steam engine are very detailed, I could never do that.
Peter- if that baby lets go, I might hurt if he lands on the small piece of metal.
Terry- those cars go through where I live all the time! It seems like more than half the trains are made of those. Did you take the photos outside?
Mike L- those scenes look good.
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I just took my Rouses Point diorama outside for some photos with a "relistic" background.(Are any of these photos good enough to submit to MR's "Trackside Photos"?)
This is how I did it.
(I know it's past the weekend, but I am still off from school.)
Harrison,
Keep working on the pics. A few tips.
You need good depth of field so that most everything is in focus. Check the manual settings on your camera. Longer exposure times and a steady hand are useful here.
Keep the focus on the models. You don't want pink foam showing for Trackside Photos, just the modeled scene, so use an angle or crop the resulting pic to do this.
Keep things level. If the horizon isn't horizontal or your figures look like they've been breaking Rule G, it distracts from the suspension of belief that the modeling found in Trackside Photos allows. It should seem as close to real a scene as you can make it.
Harrison - thanks for the enthusiastic response! Nice that you see those railcars on a regular basis. The wrapped lumber loads are custom. Blue Diamond Hill is a gypsum mine here in the Las Vegas area. They only provide raw material and don't manufacturer anything, but I thought it would be cool to have a custom load with their logo.
Yes, the images were obtained outside, on a diorama. Good to see you took your diorama outside for some pics. However, the house and the trees in the background are a giveaway for unrealistic shots. It's better to have nothing but sky in the background and not things that overpower the image.
mlehman provided some good advice for taking pics
I wish Model Railroader still had the Student Fare column.
I had a letter published in Student Fare when I was in High School, and it sure gave me added enthusiasm.